Saturday, March 18, 2006

Things destined to spiral out of control in a hideously tragic, but potentially very amusing way:

ALSO: PP very kindly gave one of his five* copies of Decline and Fall, which I am saddened and disappointed to report I enjoyed very much. Particularly the singing in the chapel bit, which I fully intend to steal at some point. Also, EW plays something of a blinder in getting in and out of scenes, which on a technical level (ooh get me) impressed me all over the shop.

There was a similar Assassins thing going on back when I was at university. I once heard about a student who hadn't left his accommodation block for a whole term because he was afraid of getting 'killed'.

There are people who play live Pac-Man in the grid-based streets of New York, too.

You are wise to await my pronouncement. The word of the blue cat has, after all, caused empires to crumble and corrupt politicians to tremble in their expensive shoes. However I'm not sure I'm going to be seeing it at all, having seen some truly dreadful chunks of the script floating about on t'net. And I never got into the comic that much, I'm ashamed to say. I'll turn the question around and ask 'what did you think of it belladonna?'.

I was quietly amazed due to it not being completely rubbish. I wondered if I'd been hallucinating, hence trying to force people to see it. Some of it was simplistic but the underlying message was still there, weirdly. Far, far better than I ever expected from a hollywood adaptation of something like that. They did make V a fair bit nicer though which I'm not so sure about.